View of the exterior of the Midwest Lumber Company buildings, with a smaller building probably an office on the left and a large building, the lumber yard or garage on the right. Sign above a large door on the right says Midwest Lbr. Co. and Paint,...

Exterior view of the Farmers Union Oil Company garages, exact location unknown. There are two garage doors open and a third closed. Two men work under the hood of a car on the far right. There are signs that say Co-op Tire Service, Lubrication,...

View of the exterior of the R & H Service Station. Two men are filling a car with gas from a gas pump. Signs on the building say "R & H Service, Stop-Wear Lubrication, Union Oil Dealers, Washing." Signs on a light pole say "76 Union, Clean REst...

Aerial view overlooking a snow covered Williston, N.D. There is a grain elevator on the left, and the train station on the far right in the foreground. Many businesses, shops, streets and automobiles are visible. In the distance are homes and...

View looking down on the Grenora Jr. High school marching band. In the front are two people carrying a sign, while the band marches down the street. Students are playing trumpets, trombones, drums, saxophones, flutes, clarinets, and a tuba. The...

Pictured is another in the varied assortment of specially built snow-bugs which planed through the snow drifts in Williams County a half century ago. This relative of an air plane was propellor driven and could easily transport the mailmen and his...

Aerial view overlooking two grain elevators, homes and other buildings in Zahl, N.D. The ground is covered in snow. The grain elevator on the right in the foreground is the Zahl Farmers Union Elevator Company grain elevator.

Nine children form a line with various decorated toy vehicles and tricycles down a sidewalk in a front yard. The children are playing with their decorated toys as if they were mini floats in a parade. There are two women helping the children. At...

View of the exterior of the Oldsmobile, GMC, Lund Motor building. In the foreground is the street corner of 11 Ave West and Second Street. There are also street signs for Highway 2 and 85. In the center and on the right is a parking lot full of...

Nine children form a line with various decorated toy vehicles and tricycles down a sidewalk in a front yard. The children are playing with their decorated toys as if they were mini floats in a parade. There are two women helping the children. At...

A view of the Epping High School band in their band uniforms with instruments on a stage in the auditorium at the Epping High School. Lloyd Bjella, director, can be seen standing in the at the far right.

A view of the Alexander Old settler's parade from on top of a building. A car full of women can be seen on the bottom right in the photograph, and horseback riders are following them. Spectators have gathered on both sides of the street.

Large group of men in civilian dress standing in a gymnasium, with a basketball hoop and a number of advertisements on the wall behind them. The men are standing at attention, with their right arms raised, apparently ready to take an oath from the...

A closer-up view of the base of the right that drilled the H.O. Bakken well reveals the broad, heavy-duty 'caterpillar' treads which bore the tremendous weight of moving the derrick 'up hill and down coulee' to a new drilling location.

Sacred music is sung by this earnest quintet which performed many times during the Christmas season and on other occasions during the mid-1950s. Left to right are Cathy Snyder, Tom Snyder, Nancy Johnson, Douglas Rankin and Debbie Palmer. The group...